Chapter 1035 World Focus
January 20.
A new round of war between India and Pakistan has lasted for 20 days.
Both sides have deployed more than one million troops to fight on the battlefield.
Both sides have deployed a large number of advanced weapons on the battlefield, including third-generation fighters, main battle tanks, electronic warfare aircraft, early warning aircraft, bombers, etc.
If other directions are added, the troops involved will exceed 3 million.
The situation in South Asia is extremely chaotic, with thousands of people killed every day.
There are even shells falling in civilian areas, causing civilians to rise.
In just 20 days, millions of refugees left the war zone, just wanting to stay away from the war.
But the world's news focus is not on South Asia. After all, it is on the edge of geopolitics. Since the situation has changed, it is difficult for the world to pay attention to it unless there is a subversive pattern again.
At this time, the world's attention is all focused on the United States.
In this world, the most important relationship is not other things, but the relationship between major powers. The relationship between major powers determines the world pattern.
The current balance of power and the interactive situation of relations between major powers have a complex impact on the changes in the world's strategic pattern.
The ultimate goal of the United States in implementing its global strategy is to establish a unipolar world order dominated by it. The government adjusts its national security strategy, seeks absolute security and absolute military superiority, launches the "preemptive" strategy, and emphasizes individualism. The fundamental starting point is to accelerate the realization of this goal.
Since the Soviet conservatives and reformists parted ways, the United States has become the only superpower in the world, ranking first in the world in comprehensive national strength and military strength.
In a certain sense, the current world strategic pattern has some unipolar colors, and it is not an exaggeration to summarize it as "one superpower and many strong countries".
In terms of economic power, there are three centers in the world today, namely the United States, the European Union and East Asia, and the United States is not the only center, presenting a three-legged tripod. The burning of the Balkan war made the European Union spit blood and fattened the Americans, but the economic strength of the European Union cannot be underestimated. In East Asia, China is implementing the "ASEAN 10+1" strategy, integrating the regional economy, and is now working hard to promote the "Northeast Asian Economic Integration". Once this strategy is realized, the economic power of East Asia will even surpass the European Union and the North American Free Trade Area.
In terms of military power, it cannot be said that the United States has an absolute advantage in the world. The world's strategic power still basically remains military. Russia is much worse than the Soviet era, but inheriting 70% of the Soviet legacy, Russia, a nuclear power, has roughly the same strategic nuclear power as the United States. The two sides are still evenly matched in strategic nuclear power, and Russia exports a large amount of oil and natural gas to Europe and East Asia, and the economy is recovering rapidly.
China has announced to the outside world that it has initially achieved mechanization construction. China has the world's No. 1 army, the world's No. 3 navy, and the world's No. 3 air force. As for the number of Chinese nuclear weapons, China has announced that it is enough.
The "nuclear terror balance" is still maintained and has not been broken.
In terms of diplomacy, the United States' unilateralism and global strategic offensive are not victorious everywhere. It has encountered setbacks on many issues. The contradictions with the Middle East Arab world and the Islamic world are getting bigger and bigger. The proportion of the US dollar as an oil settlement currency is declining year by year.
Moreover, financial speculators led by the Quantum Fund of the United States launched a financial war against Thailand, which triggered the Southeast Asian financial crisis. International financial speculators made a lot of money, but the Southeast Asian financial crisis evolved into the Asian financial crisis, and various countries suffered heavy losses. Wars broke out in Southeast Asian countries, tens of millions of civilians died in the wars, and tens of millions of refugees fled all over the world, which made everyone very dissatisfied with the international trade system based on the US dollar. In South America, Venezuela and Colombia openly sang against the Americans, unwilling to be sucked blood and eaten meat by the Americans again. Venezuela even toughly nationalized oil and natural gas, causing heavy losses to American companies. The two sides have been fighting a war of words internationally for a long time.
Several major countries have continuously emphasized that a "multipolar" world is in the interests of mankind, opposing a unipolar world and even more opposing unilateralism.
As the world's factory and the largest trading partner of more than 150 countries in the world, China has continuously emphasized economic globalization, demanded world trade freedom, opposed war, and supported peace and development.
But there is no doubt that as the only superpower in the world today, the change of power in the United States is always highly anticipated.
Since last August, the election has captured the world's attention. Countries are analyzing who will win the election. In November, when everything is settled, everyone is speculating what policies George Walker will launch and what his governing philosophy will be.
And now on January 20, George Walker officially entered the power center and delivered his inaugural address.
As the former two presidents, Clinton seemed a little bleak. If there had been no "zipper gate", he might have competed for the best American president in history.
But a "zipper gate" has tarnished his reputation.
But he still has many supporters, because during his eight years in office, the US economy developed rapidly, and the Internet and other industries developed extremely rapidly. He strongly cut military spending and issued new bonds to replace old bonds with high interest rates. In eight years, the total US debt was reduced from 6 trillion US dollars when he took over, and the national debt interest was 438.45 billion US dollars. When he was in office, the US debt was only 3 trillion US dollars, and the national debt interest was only 100 billion US dollars. In addition, the US fiscal surplus in the last year was as high as 310 billion US dollars.
Even those who disparage him have to admit that he is a good hand in developing the US economy.
It was also in these eight years that American Hollywood movies were extremely strong and conquered cities all over the world.
It was also in these eight years that, facing the EU's pressure everywhere, the United States detonated in Africa, expelled the forces of European countries such as France from Africa for several years, and then pitted Europe through the European powder keg of the Balkan Peninsula, causing Europe to bleed heavily, and the euro also suffered great losses, stabilizing the US dollar.
Facing the East, he always remained cautious and did not rashly take a tough attitude. He spent eight years in a noisy way, and his life was still okay.
But no matter what, he had to take his family away from the place where he had lived for eight years, because it welcomed its new owner.
In his resignation speech, he reviewed the eight years of efforts and achievements, and then generously blessed the next one and gave some suggestions.
And now, the silly-looking George Walker, who looked like a stupid child of a landlord as the Chinese said, and who did not look smart, will enter the White House today.
In his heart, Clinton looked down on this father and son, looked down on the old Bush who was defeated by him, and looked down on the silly-looking Bush.
But there was no way, the rules were there, and he could only leave.
And on this day, world history seemed to have turned a new page, destined to leave a strong mark in world history.